This film was shot in Ufa-Ateliers Neubabelsberg, intermittently from late January 1930 through early March of the same year. In all, the shooting added up to 15 days.
On March 24th 1930, the Censors (Filmprüfstelle Berlin) authorize it for projection (document: B. 25457, Jf).
Richard Oswald's first full sound film, it premiered on April 3rd 1930.
Breaking with the then popular...
Mileda doesn't know anything else but the brothel milieu in the Rothausgasse where she has grown up. When she's 17, a new 'salon' is opened by Madame Goldscheider in which she starts to work as a chambermaid. Her mother begs her on her deathbed to try anything to escape from that wretched milieu, but all attempts fail due to the prejudices of society against a 'girl from the Ro...
Few tenors of his era evoked as much affection as Joseph Schmidt, the tiny tenor who in spite of his diminuitive stature, became a beloved figure in both German opera and cinema. Born in 1904 in the small Romanian provincial town of Davidende, his first vocal training was as a classic Hebrew singer in the local synagogue in Cernowitz. At twenty he was sent to Berlin where he st...
"Metropolis", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", M, "Nosferatu", "People on Sunday", "Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis" all rank among the classics and most influential films of European Cinema. FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER tells the story of early German Cinema as the story of social and cultural upheaval in the first republic, between 1918 and 1933. Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the g...
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves, of course, in various guises and eras. Four of the stories are literary horror stories (one by Poe, one by R. L. Stevenson), and the last one is a comedy involving a fake haunting.